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As one of my readers recently pointed out, “The first casualty of War is Truth,” — a 1918 quote attributed to Calif. Senator Hiram Warren Johnson. It turns out many antisemitics …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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11/8/23
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JEFFERSON CITY — This past week’s cool temperatures are a reminder that winter — and the snow, sleet and ice that come along with it — is just around the corner.
To help …
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11/8/23
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I talk to outdoorsmen around the Ozarks it is amazing how ignorant they are about their rights as hunters and fishermen. The greater percentage of those I talk to wrongly believe that agents can come …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/8/23
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A couple of weeks ago I was talking with guide in Ontario who got a good laugh out of the bear hunting which forbids using bait. He said that without bait, few bears would ever be killed anywhere. In …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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11/1/23
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When the Corps of Discovery Expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, met in St. Charles to start their journey up the Missouri River in 1804, the native Americans in the central part of …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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11/1/23
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The afternoon of September 30, 2023, came and went with its fair share of drama, including narrowly avoiding a government shutdown and the subsequent ousting of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
One …
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BY GARRETT HAWKINS, President, Missouri Farm Bureau
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11/1/23
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Over the last eight years, there has been an estimated 580 percent increase in Americans being taken hostage around the world, according to a report in the New York Times .
Currently, over 50 …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/25/23
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In mid-October, Lake of the Woods, Ontario, looked like it was mid-September; no red and yellow foliage to amount to much, just green hillsides and water warmer than I had ever seen it. The …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/25/23
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I wish I could have been so skillful to put these feeling in words.
Senator Cindy O’Laughin’s capitol report this week is better than anything I could have written. I …
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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10/25/23
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Once upon a time there was a Republican Party that was identifiable and recognizable by its policy positions and political principles.
Whether at the state or national level, what defines the …
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By Janice Ellis, For the Missouri Independent
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10/25/23
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To the Editor:
I respect farmers, but have lost respect for the leadership of Dan Engemann, director of regulatory affairs, Missouri Farm Bureau.
His recent Guest Commentary in this paper …
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10/25/23
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Rotten luck, that’s all you can call it! The day before my birthday, in mid-October, I was fishing in Canada, way out in the Lake of the Woods, and found a great spot for walleye in a remote …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/18/23
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T he Palestinian Islamist terrorist group Hamas launched a surprise attack against Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, where they executed, raped, tortured, beheaded, burned alive and kidnapped over a …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/18/23
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As a Republican lead legislature, we look for ways to decrease the burden of taxes on every household and at the same time respond to the services you want and need. In the collective view, we all …
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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10/18/23
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The summer of 2023 was one to remember for many farm families in Missouri.
We’re accustomed to hot dry summers but my own father, who’s farmed “awhile,” says this is the …
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BY GARRETT HAWKINS, President, Missouri Farm Bureau
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10/18/23
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As Missouri legislators prepare for the 2024 legislative session, they should consider how many of their major 2023 accomplishments received limited public attention.
The 2023 legislative …
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By Phill Brooks, Contributing Columnist
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10/11/23
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There is a special place I visit to bow-hunt and get away from people and this awful world. It is on a lake and I get there by boat. I know that bass fishing is often very good on the nearby lake …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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10/11/23
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E ven though Missouri is landlocked with no access to the ocean, I was fascinated with sailing ships as a young boy. My favorite models were not of cars, but of clippers (a fast sailing ship).
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/11/23
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I t was a fellow journalist, short-story writer, and novelist Rudyard Kipling — the author of “The Jungle Book” — who is credited with being the originator of the phrase …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/4/23
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The Missouri State Fair, held from Aug. 10 to Aug. 20, 2023, welcomed nearly 350,000 visitors this year. This marks an approximate two-and-a-half percent increase from the previous year’s …
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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10/4/23
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